English Language Teaching in India Problems and Perspective

Abstract

Our country is a multilingual country. There are 29 states and several union territories with more than two dozen scheduled languages in our constitution. Hindi is not acceptable to all the states. When a student came to college from a regional medium school, his greatest difficulty was in adjusting himself to the medium of instructions, which was English. The students had to resort to the use of guide books when they could not follow lecturers delivered in English. But learning English gives many opportunities to do business with people all around the world.